CURRENT/UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS & EXHIBITIONS
KUNSTINSTITUUT MELLY, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Opening: 8 December 2023
Closing: 12 May 2024 EXTENDED! Sept 1st, 2024
My Oma Opening weekend at the Melly, Rotterdam. Image © Aad Hoogendoorn
Featuring selections from my Neue Rootz family portrait series.
“My Oma is a curatorial project focusing on the figure of the grandmother. It explores personal and cultural legacies mobilized by affection as much as by conflict. It convenes artists and narratives, as well as artworks and theory that articulate central issues of our time: experiences of immigration, dissonant heritage, and changing gender roles.”
ARTISTS:
A Maior (Portugal), Funda Baysal (Turkey), Yto Barrada (France), Meriem Bennani (Morocco), Nurul Ain Binti Nor Halim (Thailand), Lia Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev (Ukraine), Shardenia Felicia (Curaçao), Susanne Khalil Yusef (Germany), Charlie Koolhaas (The Netherlands), Liedeke Kruk (the Netherlands), Marcos Kueh (Malaysia), Berette S Macaulay (Sierra Leone), Silvia Martes (Curaçao), Hana Miletić (Zagreb), Jota Mombaça (Brazil), Sheelasha Rajbhandari (Nepal), Anri Sala (Albania), Stacii Samidin (the Netherlands), Katerina Šedá (Czech Republic), Buhlebezwe Siwani (South Africa), Judy Watson (Australia), and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe (Shan State, Burma).
CURATION:
My Oma is the last exhibition and public-engagement project of Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy’s tenure as the director of Kunstinstituut Melly. The exibition was developed collaboratively with the Melly team of curators - Rosa de Graaf, Jessy Koeiman, Julija Mockutė, and Vivian Ziherl.
MY OMA SUPPORT
Amarte Foundation, AMMODO, Czech Centre Rotterdam, Creative Australia, Hartwig Foundation, SAHA Association(Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey provided support for Funda Baysal), Teiger Foundation, VriendenLoterij Fonds.
New Dialogues: Selections from the National Collection
National Gallery of Jamaica
Opening: July 2023
Closing: 2024
Kingston, Jamaica
Photo credits: O’Neil Lawrence and Robin Baston
Selections of Neue Rootz currently showing in Selections from the National Collection: New Dialogues exhibition at the National Gallery of Jamaica
“A selection of artworks from the NGJ permanent collection that reflect prominent themes explored by the artists represented in the NGJ permanent collection, including historical narratives and personal insights. Middle and late 20th century artworks are mounted together with 21st century ones to explore continuums in artistic expressions, as well as to indicate more recent trajectories.”
Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington
Opening: 9 January 2024
Closing: 27 January 2024
Works by Neely Goniodsky, Britta Johnson, Berette S Macaulay,
Maja Petric, Tara Tamaribuchi, and Thomas Wilfred.
My participation in Glow in the Dark weaves 24 selected works from a number of projects (2007 – present). This show presented a unique opportunity to experiment with visual + textual narratives by setting all works in custom-made light boxes of variable dimensions.
The smaller works were installed with a magnifying glass to create interactive intimacies within larger ideas of home-making, war-torn displacement hi/stories, sites of economic struggle, mystical presences, and intersectional documentary images of diasporic life as an im/migrant.
poetry + text on images, set as transparency prints
o exiled child (2016)
o untitled (2017)
o untitled (2018)
o an excerpt from Poetics of Relation (Edouard Glissant, 1997)
work titles three projects:
ReKON: Differenzierte Möglichkeit [trans. ReConstruct: Differentiated Possibility], (2012) – requested hand-made light box selections
large format, variable dimensions
Closer, (2015 - 2022) – from images taken in Brazil, Italy, Jamaica, and Washington
2” x 3” transparency prints set in custom boxes for exhibtion
Metamorphic Return to Fusion (2015 – present) – from works made in Jamaica, Hawai’i, Sierra Leone, Vermont, and Washington.
5” x 7” transparency prints - set in custom boxes for exhibition
ancestral offering:
o olive wood bowl with cowrie shells
Glow in the Dark exhibition, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, 2024
L. ReKON: We Connect at the Root of a Beautiful Catastrophe, R. selections from Metamorphic Return and Closer.
“Here in the dark weeks, we’ve invited a mix of artists to bring some light in. Through animation and lightbox, by mechanical means and historical exploration, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery will be hosting several beacons you can visit with while the days start growing longer again.”
~ Webster Crowell, Interim Gallery Director, Exhibition Curator
FISHER PAVILION + PACIFIC CENTER, Seattle, WA
Sept 1st Preview
Open Sept 2nd + 3rd
This is my first time going to Bumbershoot and as a participating artist. I’ll be showing selections from my ReKON lightbox series for the first time in Seattle.
Bumbershoot returns to the Seattle Center this Labor Day weekend in celebration of its 50th anniversary and the dawning of a new era for Seattle’s oldest and largest arts and music festival.
Founded in 2015 as a response to the Seattle Art Fair, Out of Sight has exhibited hundreds of contemporary visual artists working in painting, sculpture, installation, new media, and performance. Today, Out of Sight has become one of the region’s largest surveys of contemporary art in the Pacific Northwest.
Adetola Abatan, Alla Goniodsky, Amanda Morgan / The Seattle Project, Anastasia Babenko, Anh Nguyen, Anida Yoeu Ali, Anthony Hudson/Carla Rossi, ariella tai, Berette S Macaulay, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, CHARI, Christine Miller, Corrie Befort, Dez’Mon Omega Fair, Ella Ray, Erica Meryl Thomas, Fernanda D’Agostino, Francesca Lohmann, Humaira Abid, jade wong, James Reed, Jeffrey Heiman, Jia Jia, Jo Cosme, Julia Freeman, Kalimah Abioto (Dr. Woodchopper), Kamari Bright, Katy Stone, Kelly Bjork, Laura Hart Newlon, Leon Finley, Leslie Vigeant, Maria Zamora, Mary Ann Peters, Maura Campbell-Shun, maximiliano, Mel Carter, Melanie Stevens, Molly Alloy, Neely Goniodsky, Patricia Vázquez Gómez, Reese Bowes , K̲aachgóon Rochelle Smallwood, Roger Peet, Romina Del Castillo, Romson Regarde Bustillo, Rubin Quarcoopome, Sa’rah Farahat, Satpreet Kahlon, Schona Christie, Sharyll Burroughs, [sic][redacted] Alan Page, Stefan Gonzales, Stephanie Simek, Susanō Surface, Tannaz Farsi, Taravat Talepasand, Timothy White Eagle, Travis Johnson
Curators Roya Amirsoleymani, Jaleesa Johnson, Rana San, and Emily Zimmerman comprise this year's curatorial team, populating the Fisher Pavilion for the indoor portion of the exhibit, and transforming the Pacific Science Center courtyard into an outdoor sculpture garden.
“The curatorial team is thrilled to bring together a broadly multidisciplinary group of artists from across the Pacific Northwest to Out of Sight as part of Bumbershoot. They focus primarily on artists from non-dominant cultures, whose practices span media and form, and many whom have not previously been part of Out of Sight. Exhibiting within the charged grounds of the 1962 World’s Fair, these artists actively make space for shifting constellations of meaning in their work, offering counter-cosmologies, and inquiries that move away from the totalizing arguments made through exhibitions.”
Copyright © Berette Macaulay 2024